Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-01
sherman and Blaine.

new YORK, March 29.-The Herald
says: Senator Sherman's speech in Gin
cinnati was forcible exposition of pub
lie policy from Republican standpoint.
He seems to hsYe gone into the campaign
for the next president with the energy Of
a cyclone which tears up everything by
the roots as it goes along. OF course we
do not agree with all the statements of
the Senator. The main point, however,
is that Mr. Sherman is the first man in the
deld. He has taken time by the fOrelock
and has succeeded so well IN Nashville
and CINCINNATI that Mr.. Blaine must needs
grasp his teeth. The solemn truth hfs
dawned on the Augusta statesman that he
has not moment to lose, that he IS a
little late already, and that be must be up
aud doing or all will be lost. So he
starts in haste for the tar west to get
glimpse Of the vast population over which
the President presideg, and to negotiate
for the possibilities OF the future.
The Times says: 1t would be inter
estino to know on what issue the Repub-
hCang expeCt TO enter the next national
campaign. None at the present time
seems to e very clear in the minds of the
leaders who are speaking from moment
to time, or in those OF the party newspaper
editors who do not enjoy the precious
privileg &c of saying nothing when there IS
nothing 20 say. Of the men who may, or
think that they may, be chosen to lead
the Republican host, Mr.. Sherman has
iust come back from the south and
MIR. Blaine has started for the
west. The former has spoken,
the latter has been spoken about. What
is said by one and what is said of the
ether throws some light on whet the issue
is not 10 be, but very little on what it is
to be. 1t is plain, for instance, that there
is going to be a good deal Of trouble in
making issues. As to the vindiCation of
Mr.. Blaine, on that point the distinguished
ex.candidate need not go west to fine out
what some of his former advocates and
present admirers think. The press OF
Iowa and Wisconsin that have been in
clnded in the published itineraCy of Mr.
| Blaine have recently contained statements
| TO the effect that he is an impossible
candidate for 1888. These statements dc
not settle the question, but they are sig
nifcant He who runs may read the
signs they afford, and they will moi
be lost on MIR. Blaine. Mr.. Sher-
man in the various remarks ne
| has made since his return to Ohio has
made another thing clear, even clearer
| than Mr.. Blalne's prospects, and that IS
| there Will be no campaign made on the
| southern question next year. The state:
| thst Mr.. Blaine drove away in hi:
notorious Portland speech on the morn
| inc of the election are rudely and ever
contemporary pulled up by Mr.
! Sherman and thrown into the dirt
| The negroes in the south are not being
| oppressed or worked at starvation wages
| and Mr.. Blaine said they were and woniC
! he. The workingmen Of the north are II
no danger of competition from cheape'
and more helpless than slave LAT or, as Mr.
| 3lsipe said they wonId be. Mr. Sherman
| reports that there is good feeling between
| the races, that the negroes are not onll
safe, but industrious, busy and prosper
Gus. The stories of southern progress
| he saws, are not exaggerated. Tina
region IS developing rapidly. Unde
| the influence Of peace, industr.
and enterprise, it has become II
marked sense "patriotic." 1t will n
longer do to hold it up as bug-s-boo t.
| brighten either political babies or dotard
in the ncrth. It's interests are ours. 1t
methods, princi. les and purposes ar
/ ours. Its representatives are in ever
market of the north and ours are all owe
thg south. a common bond of constan
IaaRar.se Jon basis of mutual conf
pect is becoming every da
Iviously there can be no Us
Fe;y shirt La the next Co.,